1799 in music

Events

• Swiss composer Jean Baptiste Édouard Du Puy is dismissed by King Gustav IV of Sweden for praising Napoleon.

  Classical music

• Ludwig van Beethoven – Piano Sonata in C Minor, Op. 13 ; Piano Sonatas Nos. 9 and 10
• Benjamin Carr – Dead March and Monody
• Joseph Haydn – String Quartets Op. 77
• Giovanni Paisiello – Sinfonia Funèbre

  Opera

• Étienne Méhul – Adrien, Ariodant
• Ferdinando Paer – La Camila ossia il Sotteraneo
• Antonio Salieri – Falstaff o sia Le tre burle

  Births

• March 21 – Charles Mayer, pianist and composer
• April 13 – Ludwig Rellstab, critic
• May 30 – Ferdo Livadić, nationalist composer
• June 13 – Henri Brod, oboist, instrument builder and composer
• September 11 – Giuseppe Persiani, opera composer
• October 31 – Maria Fredrica von Stedingk composer
• December 31 – Thomas Täglichsbeck, violinist and composer

  Deaths

• April 28 – François Giroust, composer, 62
• May 2 – Henri-Joseph Rigel, composer, 58
• May 9 – Claude Balbastre, organist, harpsichordist and composer, 74
• June 10 – Chevalier de Saint-Georges, composer and violinist, 53
• August 16 – Vincenzo Manfredini, composer, 61
• September 20 – Polly Young, soprano, composer and keyboard player, 50
• October 16 – Antoine-Frédéric Gresnick, composer, 44
• October 24 – Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf, composer, 59
• date unknown
• *Narciso Casanovas, composer
• *Marija Zubova, composer